Composer Installation
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Include elasticsearch-php in your
composer.json
file. If you are starting a new project, simply paste the following JSON snippet into a new file calledcomposer.json
. If you have an existing project, include this requirement under the rest of requirements already present:{ "require": { "elasticsearch/elasticsearch": "~6.7.0" } }
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Install the client with composer. The first command download the
composer.phar
PHP package, and the second command invokes the installation. Composer will automatically download any required dependencies, store them in a /vendor/ directory and build an autoloader.:curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php php composer.phar install --no-dev
More information about Composer can be found at their website.
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Finally, include the generated autoloader in your main project. If your project is already based on Composer, the autoloader is likely already included somewhere and you don’t need to add it again. Finally, instantiate a new client:
require 'vendor/autoload.php'; $client = Elasticsearch\ClientBuilder::create()->build();
Client instantiation is performed with a static helper function
create()
. This creates a ClientBuilder object, which helps you to set custom configurations. When you are done configuring, you call thebuild()
method to generate aClient
object. We’ll discuss configuration more in the Configuration section